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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H. W. Brands 9781541672543
RRP: $31.18$27.71In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West, from Lewis and Clark's expedition in the early 19th century to the closing of the frontier by the early 20th. He introduces us to explorers,... -
Crow Killer, New Edition: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson by Raymond W. Thorp
RRP: $23.38$21.33The movie Jeremiah Johnson introduced millions to the legendary mountain man, John Johnson. The real Johnson was a far cry from the Redford version. Standing 6'2" in his stocking feet and weighing nearly 250 pounds, he was a mountain man among mountain... -
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle by James Donovan
RRP: $27.28$21.35In June of 1876, on a hill above a river called the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this stunning defeat caused an uproar, and those involved... -
The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures by Lee Stetson 9781930238374
RRP: $19.48$13.16Here is an entertaining collection of John Muir's most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosemite Valley to his night spent weathering a windstorm at the top of a tree to... -
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation by Mark Lee Gardner 9780062669902
RRP: $33.13$21.98"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." -Wall Street JournalA magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and... -
The Battle of the Little Big Horn: A New Appraisal by W.A. Wallace 9781399046718
RRP: $48.75$34.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell: A True Story of Violence, Corruption, and the Soul of Surfing by Chas Smith
RRP: $33.13$24.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062202536Author Chas SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Los Angeles Then and Now (R) by Rosemary Lord
RRP: $39.00$27.96In 1769, Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola dedicated the new town: Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles - Our Lady the Queen of the Angels. Since then the city has been a colorful melting pot of cultures. Wagon trains brought pioneers in... -
Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii by James L Haley 9781250070395
RRP: $44.83$27.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250070395Author James L HaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)... -
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough
RRP: $60.43$33.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984880093Author Bryan BurroughFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult -
Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place by Annie Proulx 9780007231997
RRP: $21.43$14.14Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil. ... -
Escape From Alcatraz by J.Campbell Bruce
RRP: $27.28$16.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580086783Author J. Campbell BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)... -
Bad Land by Jonathan Raban 9781035034529
RRP: $21.43$15.46Jonathan Raban's enthralling journey into the history of the Great Plains of Montana - the least populated, most uncharted region of the United States - to uncover the heart and soul of the country.Bringing to life the extraordinary landscape of the... -
Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire Nicholas Thomas 9780300180565
RRP: $33.13$28.49An incisive, evocative history of the experience of empire in the Oceanic world This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain... -
True Tales and Amazing Legends of the Old West: From True West Magazine by True West
RRP: $38.90$27.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307236388Author Editors of True WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams)... -
The Illustrated Route 66 Historical Atlas Jim Hinckley 9780760368770
RRP: $54.60$36.25The definitive, fully illustrated state-by-state atlas of the shifting alignments, historic sites, and current points of interest along the United States' beloved Route 66.Route 66 changed immensely in the six decades between its opening in 1926 and its... -
Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Ann Kirschner 9780061864513
RRP: $44.83$21.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061864513Author Ann KirschnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)... -
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley
RRP: $43.88$30.23The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Winner of the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Award for History and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Gruesomely thorough. . . . Others... -
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit 9780520262508
RRP: $48.75$38.98What makes a place? "Infinite City", Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and... -
LAPD '53 by James Ellroy 9781419715853
$31.65James Ellroy, the undisputed master of crime writing, has teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Museum to present a stunning text on 1953 LA. While combing the museum's photo archives, Ellroy discovered that the year featured a wide array of stark and... -
Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables by Michael Stewart Foley
RRP: $19.48$14.96In 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seemed almost demonic. The battles over property taxes and... -
In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch by John Zada 9780802148988
RRP: $25.33$21.47Set in a wild and immaculate landscape threatened by industry and environmental degradation, a compassionate and gripping exploration of one of the world's most baffling mysteries-the existence of the Sasquatch On the central and north coast of... -
Creating the American West: Boundaries and Borderlands by Derek R Everett 9780806144467
$59.79Boundaries--lines imposed on the landscape--shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. In Creating the American West, historian Derek R. Everett... -
Casper's Troopers Drum & Bugle Corps by Michelle Bahe 9781467129084
RRP: $46.78$27.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467129084Author Michelle BaheFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingDimensions(mm) 235mm * 166mm * 8mm -
Season of the Witch by David Talbot
RRP: $42.88$29.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439108246Author David TalbotFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore 9780520242012
RRP: $48.75$38.20Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called 'the biggest prison building... -
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck by William Souder 9780393292268
RRP: $48.73$41.54This first full-length biography of the Nobel Laureate to appear in a quarter century explores John Steinbeck's long apprenticeship as a writer struggling through the depths of the Great Depression, and his rise to greatness with masterpieces such as The... -
The Shooters: A Gallery of Notorious Gunmen from the American West by Leon Claire Metz 9780425154502
RRP: $46.80$31.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425154502Author Leon Claire MetzFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
The Cornish Miner in America Volume 6: The contribution to the mining history of the United States by emigrant Cornish-miners - the men called Cousin Jacks by Arthur Cecil Todd 9780806190280
$37.28The hands of Cornish miners bore scars of one of the most sophisticated traditions of hard-rock mining in the world. Toughened "Cousin Jacks" brought generations of toilsome underground experience to the Americas from one of the oldest mining... -
The Apache Wars: The Hunt For Geronimo, The Apache Kid, And The Captive Boy Who Started The Longest War In American History by Paul Andrew Hutton
RRP: $37.03$24.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780770435837Author Paul Andrew HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)... -
The King Of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire by Mark Arax 9781586482817
$54.21J.G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labour unions and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields." The King of California ... -
A History Lover's Guide to Denver by Mark Barnhouse
RRP: $46.78$31.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467142120Author Mark A BarnhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm... -
Chief Joseph And The Flight Of The Nez Perce: The Untold Story Of An American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn 9780061136085
RRP: $23.38$21.35Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hard Road West: History and Geology Along the Gold Rush Trail by Keith Heyer Meldahl 9780226519623
RRP: $33.15$28.51In 1849, news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, and fertile soil of the eastern United States in favor... -
Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i by Hokulani K. Aikau 9781478006497
RRP: $46.78$41.42Many people first encounter Hawai'i through the imagination-a postcard picture of hula girls, lu'aus, and plenty of sun, surf, and sea. While Hawai'i is indeed beautiful, Native Hawaiians struggle with the problems brought about by colonialism, military... -
Columbine by Dave Cullen 9780446546928
RRP: $42.88$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446546928Author Dave CullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Warner Books IncPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm)... -
Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West by Chris Enss 9781493008018
RRP: $29.23$22.48This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled doves, and other wicked women by award-winning Western history author Chris Enss offers a glimpse into Western Women's... -
West of the West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State by Mark Arax 9781586489830
RRP: $19.48$15.93Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed,"When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West," and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world. This is California... -
Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of "Green" Capitalism by Hannah Holleman 9780300230208
RRP: $53.63$52.51A profound reinterpretation of the Dust Bowl on the U.S. southern plains and its relevance for today The 1930s witnessed a harrowing social and ecological disaster, defined by the severe nexus of drought, erosion, and economic depression that ravaged the... -
A Short History of San Francisco by Tom Cole 9781597142731
RRP: $29.23$19.27This is the story of San Francisco, a unique and rowdy tale with a legendary cast of characters. It tells of the Indians and the Spanish missions, the arrival of thousands of gold seekers and gamblers, crackbrains and dreamers, the building of the...